Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

Sin reduces every person, including the believer, down to a fool.

That's why James says, if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God.

In today's episode, we'll listen to the second sermon in the series,

Street-Level Christianity that Paul preached from the book of James.

In it, Paul gives a scary diagnosis that we're all dangerously foolish and a liberating hope,

that wisdom is a person. Here's Paul.

It was the call that no parent ever wants to get. I was in Virginia and I got a call from

Llewela that our daughter Nicole walking down Walnut Street

had had a SUV

crean up under the sidewalk

and crush her against a wall.

We didn't know exactly how serious these injuries were.

I knew that Llewalla was at the hospital and Nicole was in the trauma center.

And as that day unfolded, we knew that we were dealing with something very, very serious.

It had to be the longest car ride I've ever taken as we tried to make our way back to Philadelphia,

stopping by Baltimore on the way to pick up our son Darnay because we didn't know how serious things

were. My mind raced, I didn't know what to think, I didn't know what to do. I felt extremely

helpless. I will never, ever be able to forget walking into that intensive care room that evening and seeing

the broken body of my daughter.

My mind raced.

You can't be a human being without weeping and saying,

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